Richard Dawkins: The Genetic Book Of The Dead

Name: Richard Dawkins: The Genetic Book Of The Dead
Author: Dawkins, Richard & Lenzova, Jana
ISBN: 9781804548080

by Dawkins, Richard & Lenzova, Jana

ISBN: 9781804548080

Published: 2024-10-10

Science

From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book - an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. A perfectly camouflaged desert lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones 'painted' on its back. Its skin can be read as a description of ancient deserts in which its ancestors survived - and, before that, of the worlds of its more remote ancestors: a genetic book of the dead.But such descriptions are more than skin-deep. The fine chisels of Darwinian natural selection carve their way through the very warp and woof of the body, into every biochemical nook and corner, into every cell of every living creature. A zoologist of the future, presented with a hitherto-unknown animal, will be able to reconstruct the worlds that shaped its ancestors, to read...

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